How I'm using film to end honor killings in Pakistan | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Film has the power to change the way we think about ourselves and our culture. Documentarian and TED Fellow Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy uses it to fight violence against women, turning her camera on the tradition of honor killings in Pakistan. In a stirring talk, she shares how she took her Oscar-winning film on the road in a mobile cinema, visiting small towns and villages across Pakistan -- and shifting the dynamics between women, men and society, one screening at a time.

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0:00.0	Do you know who's watching you?
0:01.7	Discover Palisade, the gripping new thriller that is becoming a terrifying reality.
0:07.4	In a world dominated by AI, two unlikely allies join forces to uncover corruption and murder at the highest levels.
0:15.7	But who can they trust when their deadly enemy tracks their every move?
0:20.1	Readers are calling it compelling and a taut thriller for our times.
0:24.2	Palisade by Lou Gilmonde.
0:26.3	Get your copy today and make sure no one's watching.
0:32.6	This TED Talk features filmmaker and storyteller Charmine Obeyed Chenoy, recorded live at TED 2019.
0:43.0	I'm a storyteller, but I'm also a troublemaker.
0:48.0	And I have a habit of asking difficult questions.
0:51.8	It started when I was 10 years old, and my mother, who was raising six children,
0:57.0	had no time for them.
0:59.0	At 14, fed up,
1:01.0	with my increasingly annoying questions,
1:04.0	she recommended that I began writing
1:06.0	for the local English language newspaper in Pakistan.
1:10.0	To put my questions out to the entire country, she said.
1:16.5	At 17, I was an undercover investigative journalist.
1:20.7	I don't even think my editor knew just how young I was
1:24.6	when I sent in a story that named and shamed some very powerful people.
1:32.3	The men I'd written about wanted to teach me a lesson.
1:36.4	They wanted to shame me and my family.
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